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Hopkins Command Center Improves Quality with Coordination
The Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore is improving quality and patient safety with a state-of-the-art, advanced control center that coordinates care throughout the facility, bringing together many department representatives who can work efficiently with real-time data.
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Hospitals Can Now Factor Socioeconomic Status into Readmissions
Hospitals have long complained that assessments of their readmission rates do not take into account the socioeconomic factors that can influence them, resulting in facilities serving the neediest patients taking a financial hit when they don’t meet national standards. That is about to change with the introduction of a law that allows hospitals to factor in that information when determining readmission rates.
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Time to Use Big Data for Quality Improvement
Quality professionals have been told for years, regularly and with great enthusiasm, that they should use “big data” to radically improve quality and outcomes, but many found that doing so was a challenge and didn’t live up to expectations. -
March 8 is Deadline for Giving MOON to Patients
CMS has set March 8 as the date on which hospitals are required to give patients receiving observation services the Medicare Outpatient Observation Notice.
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When You Have a New Patient, Don’t Reinvent the Wheel
Hospital case managers should create alliances with primary care providers who can share information that will help in creating a discharge plan, according to the chief executive officer of El Rio Community Health Center in Tucson, AZ.
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Some Joint Replacement Patients May Go Home the Same Day as Surgery
Joint replacement patients who meet criteria can be discharged the same day after surgery through a program at NYU Hospital for Joint Diseases.
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Case Management Department Revamped in Response to Shift in Reimbursement
As DCH Health System in Tuscaloosa, AL, began to assume more risk for patients after discharge, the leadership redesigned the case management department to meet the new challenges.
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Track SNF, Home Health Performance, and Share Data with Patients
If you’re not monitoring length of stay and cost of care data from your post-acute providers, you could be jeopardizing your hospital’s bottom line when pay-for-performance initiatives kick in.
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Collecting Data is a Key to Success — But You Have to Use it, Too
Hospital leadership and staff need to look at new ways of delivering care to succeed in the rapidly changing healthcare marketplace as CMS and commercial payers move toward basing reimbursement on quality.
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Many HCWs in Long-Term Care Skip Flu Shots
Immunization rates for healthcare workers in long-term care were at a meager 69% last flu season — and that was an improvement.